Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] still [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be mostly kids who still worry about spots — facial as well as first team — but they performed with commendable maturity , resolve and verve at White Hart Lane . |
| 2 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 3 | Again , that matter was debated in Committee as the Minister said , after remaining entitlements had been secured , using the surpluses which still remained from TOPS , if any surpluses are left in addition , |
| 4 | Here again the old north to south and east to west through-roads were diverted to pass through the new market place , so producing the dangerous corners which still exist in the town today . |
| 5 | They are just for sad trainspotters who still live with their parents at 29 and fancy Lady Penelope off Thunderbirds and wear a scarf and read 2000AD are n't they ? |
| 6 | On Feb. 14 an agreement was signed in Geneva by Iran and Iraq , under the auspices of the ICRC , to bring to completion the repatriation of 20,000 prisoners of war from both countries who still remained from the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 7 | As she walked along , passing the blocks she still thought of as the ‘ new ’ flats , she caught sight of her grandson Jasper disappearing , in company with three other boys of similar age , into the narrow alley which led to the railway bridge . |
| 8 | But , I think once you 've decided to schedule it there 's areas we still look at , and the managers are saying this looks dangerous , then we have to . |
| 9 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 10 | But as work continues to undo the errors of the past in the care and treatment of the mentally handicapped and plan for the future , efforts must now begin to re-educate the public and dispel the misconceptions which still abound in our society even among its higher echelons . |
| 11 | ‘ The effects of reduced capital spending have almost certainly created a backlog of repairs and replacements which still leads to the widely held view ( outside government ) that the fabric of many schools remains poor . ’ |
| 12 | For example , in rural Cape Province , especially in the famous wine-growing areas , there are groups of Coloured workers who still live in semi-feudal conditions similar to those found among black workers on white farms in other parts of the country . |
| 13 | I will run as quickly as I can through the minutes of the last meeting just raising those things which still have to be actioned . |
| 14 | As knitters we still talk about the ‘ ply ’ of the yarn . |
| 15 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
| 16 | For domesticated felines remain ‘ part-kitten ’ all through their lives , and even though they may be middle-aged in feline terms they still look upon their human owners as their mothers . |
| 17 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 18 | The company founded by Ralph Lauren in 1967 traffics in all manner of hunting , fishing , nautical , equestrian and golfing-themed clothes for Americans who still look to the mythical British Empire for their cultural cues . |
| 19 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 20 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 21 | At times it still feels like yesterday , otherwise it seems a lifetime away . |
| 22 | In its cheaper forms it still suffers from the classical trouble of intolerable leakage in bad weather , especially because of the much higher loads put into the hull by modern rigs . |
| 23 | If you pass Dailly kirkyard , spare a thought for the unsung miner who lies there , and another thought for the men who still labour in the dangers of the mining industry . |
| 24 | Those who run tennis live in the Victorian age , football is run by proven failures , cricket ruled by men who still belong to the archaic Gentlemen v. Players era and athletics is in the hands of incompetent amateurs . |
| 25 | There are still a great many old-stagers who still insist on keeping up the old style — 13th January . |
| 26 | This is an evolutionary process and , while we must not pre-empt the various options which still remain for AEA 's future , neither must we lose our momentum and fail to make the progress we know is needed . |
| 27 | How the leaves which still clung to the branches of the pear tree were silvered on their undersides . |
| 28 | Hayward and Day were obviously actresses who still clung to a perception of Hollywood stardom that no longer existed . |
| 29 | Examination of men and women who still live in Hertfordshire has shown that lower birth weight and infant weight are associated with a higher incidence of known risk factors for cardiovascular disease , including raised blood pressure , plasma glucose and insulin concentrations , and plasma fibrinogen and factor VII concentrations . |
| 30 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |